At the heart of my work is drawing, having drawn obsessively since childhood. I discovered my love of working 3 dimensionally at Edinburgh School of Art and went on to complete my degree in Sculpture. I felt the need to marry both disciplines and my work developed into linear sculpture; I achieve this with wire as the line can be taken off the page and into space.
My Practice
Throughout these times I have learned to be adaptable to working in a variety of spaces due to changing circumstances, and have created a ‘studio’ environment out of any room available to me at the time.
However, recently a life long dream has been accomplished and I now work from a purpose built studio at the bottom of my garden.
Why Wire?
The effect of wire drawn in space is an ephemeral one, ghostly.
This fragile presence resonates with my view on reality which is blurry, in that our bodily existence is so fleeting, that we are here and not here at the same time, appearing somewhere between solidity and nothingness, or the seen and unseen worlds.
The wire line defines and expresses the shapes within infinite space, in the same way that I believe that we, and all aspects of nature and form are in essence different expressions of the same, universal field.
Themes
I am interested in what connects us, the unseen in life.
I spend a lot of time reflecting on psychology, consciousness, the concept of non-duality – our connection or oneness with each other, nature, creatures, our planet.
Faces have always featured in my work, I feel at its core it symbolises a continual investigation into my psyche, the human psyche, trying to understand the question of what it is to be human in this body. The separate ‘self’ or identity, and what that even is?
I find joy, sorrow, absurdity and humour in there, and I hope that their traces are expressed in form through my work.
This inner life is explored, yet we are intrinsically connected to our outer lives and environment. Where is the line of separation? The body cannot survive without our pitch perfectly designed environment.
By intertwining creatures and plants in my work within the human form, it’s a reminder of our connectedness to all life, where, especially in these times, we tend to separate our human selves from our environment and our fellow creatures to our detriment.
Finally and importantly, while I can write down some thoughts on my practice, I still find that words fail me, both in writing and in talking about my art – which leads me back to why I create in the first place, which is to communicate something where words cannot.
Exhibitions & Activities
2025 Women in Art Prize. Finalist in Sculpture category. August. Exhibiting 67 York St, London until 24th September.
2022 – 2025 Operating as an independent artist fulfilling private sales and commissions to collectors internationally.
2025 Canwood Gallery, Herefordshire. First large scale steel sculpture installed in sculpture park.
2024 The Mission Gallery. Swansea. In ‘Perfectly Strange’ exhibition. Dec ’24 – Jan ’25
2023 £10,000 Arts Council Award to upscale wire sculpture to large scale outdoor metal sculpture.
2022 Rye bank Gallery, 11A High St, Rye, East Sussex. From 28th May.
2022- Canwood London. 55 Frith St, Soho, London. Group show
2021 May. 1st Prize winner of the £10,000 Chaiya Art Awards with ‘You are Everything’
2021 -14th May-23rd May. Chaiya Art Awards, Winners Exhibition. Gallery@Oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, London
2020 – 2021 Oct. Group Show. The Tramshed Project. 32 Rivington St. London.
2019 ongoing Selection of smaller works. Lion Street Gallery, Hay on Wye, Powys.
2019 September Group show. The Canwood Gallery, Herefordshire
2019 May Brighton Festival Open Houses, Collectors Selection, 43 Hove Park Villas, Hove
2018 AAF Hampstead May 10th-13th, represented by Decorazon Gallery.
2018 May Brighton Festival Open Houses, Collectors Selection, 43 Hove Park Villas, Hove
2017 Aug -Sept Group show. The Canwood Gallery, Herefordshire.
AAF 2017
Represented by Decorazon Gallery
London, Hampstead May 2018
Stockholm, Oct 2017
London Battersea. Oct 2017
2016 -2017 Aug – Jan. Installation for ‘Ideal Networks Ltd’ offices, Brighton Station.
2016 – April 29th-June 5th. Exhibition, and representation Galleri Plan B, ‘Season of Grace’ Vaxjo, Sweden.
2011 – 2016. Full time mother and dedicating time to personal development of artwork in studio.
2007-12 Exhibition and representation, Woolff Gallery, 89 Charlotte St, London.
Art Fairs 2007-2012
Represented by Woolff Gallery London
London Art Fair, Islington Business Centre, London
Art London, Royal Hospital, Chelsea.
ArtChicago, The Merchandise Mart, Chicago.
Toronto International art fair, North Building, Toronto .
Art Miami, Miami.
The Hamptons, New York.
2009-10 Exhibition, Hubert Gallery, Madison Avenue. New York. US
2009 Album Artwork for ‘Wild Beasts’, ‘Two Dancers’, Domino Records.
Affordable Art Fairs 2006-2012
Represented by the Woolff Gallery and Red Gallery
New York
London
Paris
Bristol
Amsterdam
2005 Solo Exhibition, New Greenham Arts Centre/Corn Exchange. Newbury. Berkshire.
2004-07 Exhibition and representation, Red Gallery, Loudwater, Buckinghamshire.
2004 Exhibition, The Proper Study of Mankind. Museum of Modern Art. Wales.
2003 Exhibition. The Courtyard Art Centre, Hereford.
2001 Exhibition. The Leftbank, Hereford.
2001 Exhibition. Tredegar House Gallery, Hay on Wye
2000 Exhibition. A on Y Gallery. Hay on Wye
2000 Exhibition. The Basement, Hay on Wye, Wales.
Education
1996 BA Hons, Sculpture – Fine Art, School of Sculpture, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh.
1993 Foundation, Art Therapy, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh.